Social decline definition

8 Reasons the US is in Sharp Moral, Social and Economic DeclineNovember 28, 2013

The other day I was at home getting a shower and laying out my suit for a extremely important conference call and neighbor stopped by for something. As I continued getting ready the individual asked – “Why are you putting on a suit for a conference call, they can’t see you on a conference call?” Without hesitation my response was – “True, but I can see me. Beside, life and the subsequent character of one’s life isn’t about those moments when you are in public view, but rather it is your conduct while not in public view.”

Regrettably there is a malignant tumor quietly destroying American society and culture, whereby one's feelings and their good "intentions" outweigh their actions. It is like PETA imploring people to treat animals like people, whilst PETA euthanizes 90 percent of all the animals they take into their animal shelter.

These cancerous tumors have been responsible for the rapid dissent of fundamentally unique American constitutional, economic and societal principles. But many fail to see the broad scale deterioration of American culture, because these changes are so pervasive and gradual that they seemed almost opaque.

But the following point out to the areas of American culture that progressives have been steadily attacking for nearly 80 years, while there has been a significant change in American society over the past 40 years.

Ethical elasticity

In economics elasticity – “refers the degree to which individuals (consumers/producers) change their demand/amount supplied in response to price or income changes.

Similarly, ethical elasticity is the degree to which members of society change their ethical codes of conduct as the traditional values demanded by society are modified or diluted. Hence, ethical conduct becomes subjective, as opposed to a strict code by which to conduct one’s life.

Thus, in America today ethics are based on what you do when people are watching, as opposed to a code of conduct that is demanded by society regardless of who is watching.

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